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but there are a host of other moments in the novel
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where pushing and pulling figure,
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darkly in one of the rape scenes:
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he pushes her in to a room;
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less darkly at the drugstore:
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the soda jerk pulling on the levers of the dispenser.
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"Look out!"
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Some ten paces away Lolita
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through a glass at a telephone booth,
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membranous god still with us,
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cupping the tube confidentially,hunched over it,
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slit her eyes at me,